By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Poetry Form: Loop Poetry
Hosted by Grace July 28, 2022
Dawn burns bright so hot
Hot to little puppy feet
Feet rise and fall so quickly
Quickly they jump into the pool
Pool is chilly and feels wonderful
Wonderful cool water soothes hot feet
Feet splash and paddle away the hurt
Hurt subsides in joyful playfulness
Playfulness makes a puppy happy
Happy puppy barks in exuberance
Exuberance for life and owner
Owner smiles with love at dawn
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
The battle’s almost over
Pain will be the victor
Body growing tired
Age assisting pain
Fought a fight worth fighting
Life lived in agony
Now what lay ahead
More pain more fight not me
Morning rise in misery
Lunchtime brings the same
Dinner left uneaten
Pain has won again
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
E.M.’s RWP~ #227 Prompt Word: UNWAVERING
O say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave*
Or has the unwavering pursuit
of money and power stilled
Your Stars and Stripes
denying your loyal citizens
of their God-given rights
And the star-spangled banner
in triumph doth wave* across a nation decimated by unwavering belief
in a statute misconstrued
to cause chaos and pain
To bring glory to the Godless
leaving the rest to fight and beg
A people we constructed this nation
unwaveringly built on principle
and pride denied the Indigenous
their land and quelling their souls
Now our own bell does toll
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave*
*Excerpts from The Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
Morning sun rises
brilliant golden rays
pierce a broken heart
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
sundae always bless sludge pool hot fudge tiny pixie butterflies taste vivid
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Bless the tiny pixie girl
With vivid butterflies in her hair
Always there to give a taste
From her pool of dark hot fudge
To he who had to sludge through life
Giving him a laugh and a smile
Served atop a giant bowl
She made for him the best darn
Sundae mixed with love
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Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
Body racked with pain
Release me from your cruel torture
So I may live again
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to WRITEPHOTO – Slit
Hosted by KL Caley
Days hot and long
How long, unknown
No stone to mark the walls
Not a single straw to mark a year
High above a slit
Days pass by and nights
Slide through it without relief
Hands grow gnarled hair is thinning
Bitter loneliness arrives
Depression anger disbelief all
Left so many nights ago unmarked
Somebody anybody know I’m here?
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
The road from there to here
is long
From here to there
not so long
A sad mournful song
is right on key
A song mournful and sad
way out of tune
The sun sweltering hot
feeding flora and fauna
A hot sweltering sun
burns plants to the ground
A heart lonely and cold
grows still in the chest
A cold lonely heart
warms at your touch
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – ASTOUNDING – July 19, 2022
a puppy adorned
in a pretty pink vest
is astoundingly cute
By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
In response to Photo Challenge #423
by weejars @ Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie
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Salt spray clears the mind
turquoise waves carrying
foamy white topping
moves swiftly toward the shore
Squeals of delight
children chasing the tide
as shells roll furious
beneath bare ticklish feet
The air soft and warm
envelopes glowing skin
brings a wealth of renewal
to young and old the same
Across the bay people work
all day never paying any heed
to the beauty of the sea
and all she has to say
Gypsie’s Wonderful World of Words 